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Doctors aire not held good risks
too liable to accidents.
Best rislts are commercial travel
ers because they're so familiar with
the perils of travel they seldom get
hurt. Only 10 per cent of their ac
cident policies are collected.
School teachers also are good
risks.
SEEING THINGS
Once I saw
Tombed in a shard of liquid, golden
amber,
A cruel spider and a silly fly
And a wise ant, quite close together.
Allan Updegraff in Lippincott's.
Once I saw
Perched on my bed a flock of pink
and green snakes,
A blue monkey and a red giraffe
And a purple dog, all in a bunch.
Cincinnati Inquirer.
Once I saw
Approaching toward my flivver on
the highway
A heavy truck and a speeding bike
And an ice-cart, too close to dodge.
Boston Journal
Once I saw
As I held three deuces at a little green
table,
A king full, and a flush,
And a straight, and they told me to
stay out till
I had something.
Detroit Free Press.
Once I saw,
Calmly drinking at the bar together,
A Britain, a German, a Frenchman,
And a Herzegovinian from Serajevo.
I called the police.
St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Once I saw
As I lay a wreck on a pile of unpaid
bills, All the men who owed me money
Standing in line waiting to pay me.
Then I woke up. Judge.
Once I saw
A congressman who did his duty to
the nation,
And never looked on pork
Nor played cheap politics,
Then I smoked another pipe.
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WOMAN AIDS SERBS THREATS
FOLLOW HER WORK
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MK5.5.3.FfeticIi
Activity in. behalf of the Serbia
relief work has brought the New
York society woman into the "dan
ger" zone. Threatening letters and
telephone calls caused her to move
from her home to the Hotel Vander
bilt and started a federal investiga
tions of the threatening communications.
TODAY IN ILLINOIS HISTORY
March 8, 1757. The authorities in
Louisiana made an urgent appeal to
the French ministry for supplies and
ammunition for the Mississippi valley,
since the Indians, disappointed at not
receiving present from the French,
were going over to ffie side of the
English in the war.
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